Peter Maxwell, Head of Sixth Form approaches Leighford High with a less than jaunty stride. In fact, like many of the pupils, he’s dragging his feet - for today is the Ofsted Inspection, every teacher’s nightmare. But worse is to come - for on the third day of the inspection, one of the Inspectors is found fatally stabbed.
Although he’s not one of Peter’s favourite people, when headmaster James Diamond is found in a compromising position with another of the Ofsted Inpectors, Sally Meninger, and is arrested on suspicion of murder, Peter decides to look a little more closely at Sally Meninger. His investigations are somewhat hampered by is his lover DS Jacquie Carpenter who feels that Peter would do better to leave it to the experts ie the police, but Peter is fired with a sense of injustice.
This is the first book I have read of this series, a serious omission on my part which I plan to rectify. The style of writing and the tongue in cheek humour is utterly splendid. Peter Maxwell is the true individual or maybe eccentric, and I am all for eccentricity.
Peter Wickham was marvellous, bringing just the right tone to the character,
so that it really was Peter Maxwell narrating. An excellent book
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Lizzie Hayes